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I mean afraid with seen it i'm here with Bill Gates the philanthropist and software giant we are actually just leaving the tech not a mean silly cow and earlier today you talked about this notion that one of the things that's really needed for combating disease and handling a lot of large systems is better software modeling why is that so important well if we want to find new compounds that work trying them all out can be a very slow process and if we can model what's going on genetically with the disease model the shapes of the proteins so we can try and find small molecules model bad interactions we can understand what drugs cause side effects before we do long multi or hundred-million-dollar trials modeling software will improve the efficiency at the field and we're seeing that everywhere whether it's designing cars and planes all this modeling capability is letting design cycles be better higher-quality it's really the toolset that's driving innovation and is the foundation going to develop this software no no well there's one particular area that funding in a foundation way which is this disease modeling software but modeling software broadly there's a for-profit company called Schrodinger that I put some money into that does modeling software for drugs there's you know many different categories the disease modeling thing we've just decided it to be free and available for researchers to connect up to but a lot of these things whether its heat modeling or things that we use for various innovations for the poorest there we're just using the commercial packages that are that are great but for the disease model specific this isn't that the Foundation's going to do and then you're gonna make broadly available for free yeah I actually funded I have a thing called global good which is how I fund invention science found a group Nathan Myhrvold house to do a variety of things that focus on foundation things so disease modeling I did and over two thousand eleven will will be putting it out for researchers to work with I know obviously most of your time to spend on the foundation stuff are there still specific projects you're deeply involved in at Microsoft well I'm a board member and that's a reasonably serious thing and Steve brainstorm seen with me when new product milestones come along like some planning an office I'll be part of that search is actually the one where I spend the most on going time but you know groups will comment and out that's been the biggest individual project have you spent much time thinking I know tablets is a long-held vision of yours you know certain tablets been getting a lot of attention it's not necessarily one that uses your software is that something where you still want to kind of put your two cents in or sure there's certainly a lot of mail for me to the windows group talking about how we make sure windows is the the best choice for the all sorts of new form factors